Note from the Editor:
Back to that mega-church trip I mentioned in a previous issue, after telling them I was interested but too poor to afford the high cost, a month or so passed… and a bitch, of all people, volunteered to pay for it. We’d be flying over to spend a half-month in ‘the Holy Land’. I, of course, accepted the surprising offer, even though it was sure to end up like my Japan trip had; hell with a needy psycho trying to fuck up every single thing.
Israel and Jordan, and the edge of Lebanon, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia, were really neat places to finally be going to. I saw so many places I never really planned to, and so much sooner than I’d ever thought it safe to return. It was another free trip to this semi-continent; the government or military had paid for the first two, and now a religious group was actually providing the third. Weird… but workable.
People kept telling me I looked a lot like Jesus. Some were creeped out by it; they were obviously evil. I kept my hair long and unbound, enjoying, in a way, creeping out the creepy for once. I hope my return (to the Middle East, pun intended) kept them nervous as hell.
I kept a journal on an artistic notebook they’d given each of the people on this trip. I also took tons of photos and a few videos, all of which you can find on my website. I really paid attention to my surroundings, the messages from the people speaking in many places, and even the looks people gave me or others on the streets. This all helped me figure out what had really been going on over there, and who, if anyone, deserved more of my time.
After being treated like shit by several of the people on the trip, reinforcing my views on religious people as a whole, I had all I needed to return to the States, never look back, and prepare another counter-wave of material exposing everything there was to know and laugh at about them. Their greatest efforts to ruin my days and life… only ended up making more of MKM.
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New Swabia: the area of Antarctica around Base 211 that became the first modern nation on that continent
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Poking Fun at Fake News:
Some organizations, such as Business Insider, at least have a clue about the nature of the fake-news epidemic. Check this article out; it has an excellent concept; watching programs like Fox News actually make you less informed than if you watched NO news; assuming paid and regulated strangers are being honest and accurate… fills one’s head with so much gibberish and chaos that it makes disconnected and isolated people more aware and informed by default.
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